Preliminary results from the Heating Rocket (HERO) project: In situ measurements of ionospheric modifications using sounding rockets
Abstract
In situ measurements of the plasma waves generated in an ionospheric modification experiment were made by four instrumented payloads on sounding rockets. The payloads flew through a sunlit atmosphere and observed F layer modifications, in particular electron plasma waves, near the reflection level of the heating wave. Examples of the observed effects are presented.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983ESASP.195...75G
- Keywords:
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- Ionospheric Heating;
- Rocket Sounding;
- Wave Generation;
- Electron Energy;
- F Region;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Plasma Waves;
- Sunlight;
- Geophysics